Office of the Chair Administration
Department Leadership
Darwin Conwell, MD, MSc, FACG
- Chairman, Internal Medicine
- Professor
- Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
Department Administration
Kathy Carpenter
- Faculty Affairs Administrator
- Academic Services Administrator/UKHC
Nicola J Dragonetti
- Program Coordinator II/UKHC
Lindsey M Francia
- Administrative Coordinator II/UKHC
Bailey Harden
- Administrative Coordinator II/UKHC
Andrew W Lake
- Business Improvement Analyst/UKHC
Emily E. Lee
- Clinical Administrator IV
Jessica Caldwell
- Business Improvement Analyst/UKHC
Rhoni M Moffit
- Administrative Coordinator II/UKHC
Michelle K Monticello
- Clinical Administrator III/UKHC
Daniel T Ormond
- Clinical Administrator I/UKHC
Cassandra Rogers, MS
- Administrative Staff Officer II/UKHC
Ashley Tabb
- Dept Communications Specialist Sr/UKHC
Matthew Turner
- Department Administrator
Macey Wade
- Dept Communications Coord/UKHC
Kelley Wiley
- Academic Services Administrator/UKHC
Casey Wright
- Operations Director/UKHC
Division Chiefs
Lowell B. Anthony, MD
- Professor
- Chief, Division of Medical Oncology
Lanla F Conteh, MD
- Professor
- Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Joy Engblade, MD, MMM, FACP
- Assistant Professor
- Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine
Simon Fisher, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
- Vice Chair for Research and Innovation, Internal Medicine
Anthony Gerber, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Division Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Andrew R Leventhal, MD, PhD
- Interim Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
- Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Jessica McFarlin, MD
- Associate Professor
- Chief, Division of Palliative Care
Beth Miller, MD
- Clinical Faculty
- Chief, Division of Allergy and Immunology
Paramarajan Piranavan, MD
- Associate Professor
- Chief, Division of Rheumatology
- Program Director, Rheumatology Training Program
Pierluigi Porcu, MD
- Professor
- Chief, Hematology and Cellular Therapy
- UK Markey Cancer Center Associate Director, Clinical Translation
Peter Boutros Sawaya, MD
- Professor
- Chief, Division of Nephrology, Bone and Mineral Metabolism
Alice Thornton, MD
- Professor
- Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
- Project Director, Kentucky AIDS Education and Training Center
Dale Toney, MD
- Clinical Faculty
- Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
- Women's Health
Heidi Weiss
- Regular Faculty
- Chief, Division of Cancer Biostatistics
James Wharton, MD
- Assistant Professor
Vice Chairs
Kenneth S. Campbell, PhD
- Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
- Professor of Physiology (Joint appointment)
- Associate Vice Chair for Translational Research, Internal Medicine
Jagriti Chadha, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Avanced Development Director, Internal Medicine
- Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Advancement, Internal Medicine
Kristy Deep, MD, MA, FACP
- Professor of Medicine
- Vice Chair for Education, Internal Medicine
- Education Chair
Simon Fisher, MD, PhD
- Professor
- Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
- Vice Chair for Research and Innovation, Internal Medicine
Kirby P. Mayer, DPT, PhD
- Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Internal Medicine
- Physical Therapy
Ashley Montgomery-Yates, MD
- Professor
- Senior Vice Chair for Healthcare Strategy and Implementation, Internal Medicine
Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD
- Professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
- Associate Director for Translational Research in Diabetes, Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center
- Associate Vice Chair for Basic Science Research, Internal Medicine
Angela Webb, MD
- Clinical Faculty
- Vice Chair for Wellness, Internal Medicine